Richard Rothstein is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Liveright, 2017). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In addition to his recent book, The Color of Law, he is the author of many other articles and books on race and education, which can be found through the Economic Policy Institute. Previous published books include Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Improvement to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap, and Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right.
World Architecture
January 21, 2021
But the CBO’s estimates about job losses are more negative than expected, according to Ben Zipperer, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning research group.
“The benefits of the policy far outweigh the potential costs,” he said.
CNBC
January 21, 2021
“It’s a disaster. Those kids who have already got the worst of COVID and its consequences are the ones who are going to face a larger lack of sufficient, and sufficiently qualified, teachers,” Emma Garcia, an education economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told The New York Times. “It’s going to have negative consequences immediately and it’s going to take them longer to be able to catch up.”
The Hill
January 21, 2021
Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think-tank, argued that the CBO’s estimated job losses from enacting a $15 minimum wage are “overstated.”
“The crucial fact is that an employment decline as a result of a minimum wage increase doesn’t necessarily mean any worker is actually worse off,” she wrote in a July 2019 report. “For a wide variety of reasons, a sizeable share of low-wage workers routinely cycle in and out of employment; each quarter, more than 20 percent of the lowest-wage workers leave or start a job.”
MarketWatch
January 21, 2021
And this isn’t a tactic unique to academic organizing. According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, employers in the United States spend a collective $340 million on “union avoidance” consultants each year, generally for the purpose of framing unionizing efforts as labor’s bogeyman.
Orlando Weekly
January 21, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute says 9.8 million jobs have disappeared since February 2020. The think tank stated Jan. 14 that 26.8 million workers are now jobless or have experienced a cut in hours or wages due to the pandemic. (tinyurl.com/y3blh3qj)
Mundo Obrero Workers World
January 21, 2021
“It’s a disaster. Those kids who have already got the worst of COVID and its consequences are the ones who are going to face a larger lack of sufficient, and sufficiently qualified, teachers,” Emma Garcia, an education economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told The New York Times. “It’s going to have negative consequences immediately and it’s going to take them longer to be able to catch up.”
The Hill
January 21, 2021
Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think-tank, argued that the CBO’s estimated job losses from enacting a $15 minimum wage are “overstated.”
“The crucial fact is that an employment decline as a result of a minimum wage increase doesn’t necessarily mean any worker is actually worse off,” she wrote in a July 2019 report. “For a wide variety of reasons, a sizeable share of low-wage workers routinely cycle in and out of employment; each quarter, more than 20 percent of the lowest-wage workers leave or start a job.”
MarketWatch
January 21, 2021
And this isn’t a tactic unique to academic organizing. According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, employers in the United States spend a collective $340 million on “union avoidance” consultants each year, generally for the purpose of framing unionizing efforts as labor’s bogeyman.
Orlando Weekly
January 21, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute says 9.8 million jobs have disappeared since February 2020. The think tank stated Jan. 14 that 26.8 million workers are now jobless or have experienced a cut in hours or wages due to the pandemic. (tinyurl.com/y3blh3qj)
Mundo Obrero Workers World
January 21, 2021
Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think-tank, argued that the CBO’s estimated job losses from enacting a $15 minimum wage are “overstated.”
“The crucial fact is that an employment decline as a result of a minimum wage increase doesn’t necessarily mean any worker is actually worse off,” she wrote in a July 2019 report. “For a wide variety of reasons, a sizeable share of low-wage workers routinely cycle in and out of employment; each quarter, more than 20 percent of the lowest-wage workers leave or start a job.”
MarketWatch
January 21, 2021
And this isn’t a tactic unique to academic organizing. According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, employers in the United States spend a collective $340 million on “union avoidance” consultants each year, generally for the purpose of framing unionizing efforts as labor’s bogeyman.
Orlando Weekly
January 21, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute says 9.8 million jobs have disappeared since February 2020. The think tank stated Jan. 14 that 26.8 million workers are now jobless or have experienced a cut in hours or wages due to the pandemic. (tinyurl.com/y3blh3qj)
Mundo Obrero Workers World
January 21, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute forecasts a dire picture if federal aid to state and local governments isn’t secured: over 5 million jobs will be lost by the end of 2021.
Common Dreams
January 19, 2021
In a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute found no progress since 1968 in how Black people fare in comparison with whites when it comes to homeownership, unemployment, and incarceration.
ABC4-TV
January 19, 2021
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute estimates that nearly a quarter (22.7%) of Wisconsin’s workforce would be affected by a raise in the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
January 19, 2021
Still, economic research in recent years has changed the outlook for some by indicating that it doesn’t have a significant impact on employment, said David Cooper, senior economic Analyst at the Economic Policy Institute.
“That has muted a lot of opposition among folks who may have been opposed, not for ideological reasons, but because they thought the policy did more harm than good,” Cooper said. “I’ve seen companies coming out and supporting it too. Part of that is because there’s broader support for the idea that raising the minimum wage gives additional dollars to go out and spend.”
Bloomberg
January 19, 2021
But the challenges he — and, ultimately, Biden — face are daunting. Even before the pandemic, income inequality was soaring, with earnings rising much more quickly at the top. And now nearly 16 percent of workers are either unemployed or working fewer hours than they were before, many of them Black and Latino, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Boston Globe
January 19, 2021
States and local government, meanwhile, could be forced to further cut their already strained budgets to make up for losses in tax revenue.
“Without more aid they will have to make more cuts, and cut services and that will disproportionately affect lower income families and communities,” said Heidi Shierholz, who served as chief economist for the Labor Department during the Obama administration and is now at the Economic Policy Institute. She said comprehensive aid for state and local governments and additional benefits for the unemployed should be the priority in the next round of measures.
Bloomberg
January 19, 2021
In Greenville County, monthly child care costs are just shy of $500 for one child, according to the Economic Policy Institute. And the annual average cost of infant care in South Carolina is about $7,000, which is one of the lowest rates in the U.S.
Money Magazine
January 19, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute also is pushing for an end to sub-minimum wages for tipped workers. Workers who get tips — including, of course, waitstaff — depend on those tips, which once were thought of as a token of gratitude, as a central part of their income. It is one big reason why the pandemic has been so rough on restaurant workers who now have their customers take food out rather than eat in.
Poynter
January 19, 2021
“What’s happened with unemployment, to me, has sort of most exposed the myth of the unique digital platform or gig worker,” said Celine McNicholas, the director of government affairs for the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “You can dress it up, you can put it on a phone and make it an app and make it pretty and make it seem like it’s something else, but at the end of the day, it’s misclassification, and we need to tighten those standards in the Department of Labor to crack down on it.”
Washington Post
January 19, 2021
Distance learning during the pandemic has been an abject failure. Despite the heroic efforts of many teachers, school staff and administrators, we’re failing our kids. A recent report by the Economic Policy Institute shows that we’ve thwarted child development and increased the equity gap between our students and families. That’s on top of the fact that kids aren’t learning like they should.
The Reporter
January 19, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute said that if the U.S. kept pace since then, the minimum wage would have reached $18.28 in 2013.
NBC2
January 19, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Michigan had the highest Black unemployment rates in the country at 35.5% — double the white unemployment rate, which was 17.5%.
Lansing State Journal
January 19, 2021
Black men on average make 71 cents for every dollar paid to white men, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Black women, meanwhile, earn 63 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men. That adds up to a loss of $24,127 a year for Black women, or $965,078 over the course of a work-life spanning 40 years, according to an analysis by the American Association of University Women.
USA Today
January 19, 2021
Some 26.8 million U.S. workers “are either unemployed, otherwise out of work because of the virus, or have seen a drop in hours and pay because of the pandemic,” according to economist Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute.
Common Dreams
January 19, 2021
A big proposal for a big problem: “This package is at the scale of the problem,” said Heidi Shierholz of the liberal Economic Policy Institute. State and local aid, unemployment insurance expansions/extensions, $400 billion to fight COVID, and more. They got the economics right. This is a very bright spot in a difficult time.”
The Fiscal Times
January 19, 2021
Raising the federal minimum wage would increase wages for more than 23 million Americans, according to the UC Berkeley Labor Center, which examined the public cost of the Raise the Wage Act introduced by Congress in 2019. The Economic Policy Institute has reported that low-wage workers today are forced to work longer hours just to achieve the bare minimum standards of living compared to workers half a century ago, in part due to decline in purchasing power.
Creative Loafing Tampa
January 19, 2021
According to a 2018 report by the Economic Policy Institute, the average income for the top 1% in Washington made 24.2 times more than the other 99%.
The Center Square
January 19, 2021